Stupid e-mail filters
Pointless post for the day: Gmail’s virus scanner rejected an e-mail with an attachment named “Expedia.com Itinerary.pdf” because it contained a potentially malicious attachment named “Expedia.com.” Uh, what was wrong with the ” Itinerary.pdf” part? I hate stupid keyword filters. Granted, a .com file attached to an e-mail is almost certain to be a virus or worm, but this was a PDF file which just happened to contain “.com” in its name; why doesn’t the Gmail filter look at the file type instead of relying on a keyword filter which looks for “.com” in file attachments? 